Chapter I: The Blighting of the Babies

Footnote 1:

The Theory and Practice of Infant Feeding, by Henry Dwight Chapin,
A.M., M.D.

Footnote 2:

Registrar General’s Report, 1886, pp. 32–126.

Footnote 3:

Population Française, Levasseur, vol. ii, p. 403.

Footnote 4:

Tenement Conditions in Chicago, by Robert Hunter, pp. 154–157.

Footnote 5:

Poverty, by Robert Hunter, p. 144.

Footnote 6:

The Diseases of Children, by Henry Ashby, M.D., Lond., and G. A.
Wright, B.A., M.B., Oxon., p. 12.

Footnote 7:

Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social
Science, 1882, p. 388.

Footnote 8:

Mulhall’s Dictionary of Statistics, p. 133.

Footnote 9:

Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration.
Evidence.

Footnote 10:

_Idem._ Evidence of Dr. Eichholz and Others.

Footnote 11:

Parliamentary Paper [Cd. 1501] containing a Memorandum by Sir William
Taylor, the Director-General, Army Medical Service.

See also a letter to the _London Times_, February 2, 1903, by General
F. Maurice.

Footnote 12:

Tenement Conditions in Chicago, p. 157.

Footnote 13:

Information received from the Commissioner of Health.

Footnote 14:

Trans. Nat. Ass’n for the Promotion of Social Science, 1882, p. 387.

Footnote 15:

The Nutrition of the Infant, by Ralph M. Vincent, M.D., p. 246.

Footnote 16:

Diseases of Children, Ashby and Wright, p. 228.

Footnote 17:

_Idem._, pp. 44–45.

Footnote 18:

Figures quoted from a newspaper report of an interview with Mr.
Straus.

Footnote 19:

See the Article, But a Thousand a Year, in _Charities_, August 5,
1905; Infants’ Milk Depots and Infant Mortality, by Dr. G. F.
McCleary; The Problem of the Milk Supply, by Dr. Lawson Dodd, etc.

Footnote 20:

Report Interdepartmental Committee, vol. ii, p. 442; Vincent, _op.
cit._, pp. 268 _et seq._

Footnote 21:

Report of the Health of the City of Birmingham, 1902, by Dr. Alfred
Hill. Quoted by Vincent, _op. cit._, p. 272.

Footnote 22:

Vincent, _op. cit._ Also Testimony before the Interdepartmental
Committee contained in the Report Evidence.

Footnote 23:

Mass and Class, by W. J. Ghent, p. 182.

Footnote 24:

From the newspaper report of an interview referred to above.

Footnote 25:

A Noviciate for Marriage, by Mrs. H. Ellis.

Footnote 26:

Twentieth Annual Report of the N. Y. Bureau of Labor Statistics, p.
61.

Footnote 27:

_Charities_, April 1, 1905.

Footnote 28:

See, _e.g._, the _Fortnightly Review_ for 1876, the _Contemporary
Review_ for 1882, and the various Transactions of the National Society
for the Promotion of Social Science.

Footnote 29:

Methods of Social Reform, by W. S. Jevons.

Footnote 30:

Report of the Proceedings of the Third International Congress for the
Welfare and Protection of Children,—Speech of Mr. Hartley, B. N.
Mothersole, M.A., LL.D., p. 166.

Footnote 31:

_Idem._

Also the Transactions of the Nat. Soc. for the Promotion of Social
Science, p. 384.

Footnote 32:

Primitive Folk, by Élie Reclus, p. 35.

Footnote 33:

See the Comparative Summary of Legislation upon this Subject in
Dangerous Trades, edited by Prof. T. Oliver, pp. 53, 54.

Footnote 34:

_Vide_ Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical
Deterioration and the frequent discussions in the British Press.

Footnote 35:

Transactions of the National Society for the Promotion of Social
Science, 1882, p. 363.

Footnote 36:

_Idem._, p. 382.

Footnote 37:

Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich, 1904.

Footnote 38:

Diseases of Children, by Ashby and Wright, pp. 14 _et seq._

Footnote 39:

See, _e.g._, Infants’ Milk Depots and Infant Mortality, by G. F.
McCleary.

Footnote 40:

Report on Les Crèches, by Dr. Eugène Deschamps, Congrès International
d’Hygiene et de Démographie à Paris, 1900.

Other works consulted include: How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob A.
Riis; The Battle with the Slum, by the same author; The Diseases
of Infancy and Childhood, by L. Emmet Holt, M.D., LL.D.

System of Medicine, edited by Clifford Allbutt.

Antenatal Pathology, by J. W. Ballantyne, M.D.

The Study of Children, by Francis Warner, M.D., London, F.R.C.S.,
F.R.C.P.

The Nervous System of the Child, by the same author.

In the preparation of the text free use has also been made of the
files of the following journals: _British Journal of Children’s
Diseases_; _British Medical Journal_; _New York Medical Journal_,
_Archives of Pediatrics_; _Lancet_, _Journal of the American
Medical Association_, etc.